girls:
2.6k births since 1981
#3372 (41st percentile)
boys:
549 births since 1989
#4037 (12th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1981
#4827 (38th percentile)
The name Nour is the #4,827 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,179 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 37.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,372 (41.0% percentile) for all time with 2,630 births since 1981. For boys, it ranks #4,037 (11.9% percentile) for all time with 549 births since 1989.
Nour first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (1981 for girls and 1989 for boys). Birth data for Nour is available in 42 out of the 43 years between 1981 and 2023 (42 years for girls and 34 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Nour has been given predominantly to girls, with 82.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 84.8% of babies named Nour were girls.
For girls, Nour reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 12.2% percentile (ranked #864) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 61 births per million (ranked 10.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Nour is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #846 (10.7% percentile) with 61 births per million.
For boys, Nour reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #860) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Nour ranks #897 for boys (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 82.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nour".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Nour", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Noor" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Noor..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Nour. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.5% confident that Nour is pronounced as noor, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nuer, at 40.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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